Skimming over the ‘best of 2009′ film lists during the New Year break, you may have noticed numerous references to A Prophet (pictured), Jacques Audiard’s terse prison drama that pinched the inaugural Best Film award at the London Film Festival back in October. The tawdry …
Image / BFI Mediatheque If your mouth watered at the prospect of next week’s debate about science and the cinema, you should probably get your autonomic nervous system checked out then here’s another date for your diaries. On 17 November, RIBA Building Futures will assemble …
The 53rd BFI London Film Festival is in full swing, as actors, directors, writers and producers jet in to support and promote films and the festival. Once we’d got over the incongruence of seeing Leicester Square (more synonymous with chain bars, kebab-soaked pavements and overpriced …
Image by pintofstripe We never had Gordon Brown as much of a film buff, but the PM is mugging for the camera like old Tinseltown royalty after strong-arming his chums at the Treasury to stump up the cash that had threatened to derail a number …
Tomorrow, at the Cinema Museum Kennington, there’s free film clinic giving expert advice on the preservation, storage and restoration of your classic, much loved and oft neglected home movies. We gave you a prod to root out those old film reels of you falling into …
Plans for the Tate Modern extension, by Herzog & de Meuron Damn you, recession! Not content with rising unemployment, enormous public debt and letting the bankers get away with it, now you want to take away our fabulous museum extensions as well? You won’t be …
Image courtesy of the BFI on Twitter Barring an increase in the level of applause, nothing much happens when Nick Cave enters the room. Darkness doesn’t close in and a chill doesn’t descend. Given the Australian’s apparent obsession with death, that’s almost a surprise. Cave …
Darkness descends on the Southbank on Wednesday 17th June as Nick Cave makes an appearance at the BFI for a preview of “Do you love me like I love you Part 5: Tender Prey”. “Do you love me like I love you” is a series …
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Ladies and Gents, set your status to “moist anticipation,” cultivate those stomach-fluttery butterflies, and start thinking of some health hiccups you can turn into sickies; there’s seven, just SEVEN days to go until the amazing Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival kicks off! Unlike Cannes, …
Akram Khan & Juliette Binoche by roll the dice We were fortunate to be in the company of the beautiful people on Friday when actress Juliette Binoche and dance star Akram Khan revealed their upcoming Franco-British collaboration for the National Theatre. The project – In-I …
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